i learned how to spell kyrgyzstan for this post

"large scale protests appear to have overthrown the government of kyrgyzstan."

we take for granted, i think, that it would take more than 17 deaths in an attempt to overthrow our government, let alone a SUCCESSFUL attempt where the president flees for his life to norway.  yikes.  this is scary and unstable.  and i had to go to google maps to find kyrgyzstan.


and, since in 2010, there are immediately videos of it on youtube.  of course there are.  videos of people in suits coming from the office and riot police and shots being fired.  what crazy world is this that we are living in - where there is immediacy like this?